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| As the global financial climate increases its ‘squeeze’ on UK businesses like a giant boa constrictor crushing its prey, it leaves many companies in survival mode, looking at ways to manage with their existing infrastructure resources, trying to streamline running costs and reduce non critical IT expenditure.
It is just common sense to be cautious in these difficult times and there are several ways you can stay ahead of the game and make sure your business is as cost effective as possible. |
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. Guarantee quality of service and optimum network performance. Monitor traffic by behavioural analysis and enable early warning notification of potential issues with the added ability of being able to troubleshoot issues before they attribute to downtime or restricted day to day business performance.
It is also a good idea to have an ‘IP Audit’ and a visual topology diagram created of your infrastructure, including all connected devices. Having the ability to cross check maintenance contracts, software usage and revisions will potentially give you the opportunity to reduce ongoing support costs, reduce redundant hardware and software and ensure that you have an accurate summary of IP assets and usage. |
. It costs £3,000 in running costs per server per year for cooling and power provision alone. Given thisfact you could do a very quick calculation in your head to ascertain the huge cost saving to be gained by looking at Server Reduction.
We are expecting some hot weather this summer, over the next few months the temperatures are set to saw... So how will your server room cope with this?
If you implemented a Distributed Power Management Policy, which effectively means during ‘out of hours’ or ‘off peak’ times, all server images could be consolidated onto one unit, further reducing your running costs. By using distributed switch architecture, you would also save countless man hours on configuration and management as this could all be done from a central point instead of each unit. |
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. No business can afford to be handicapped by unforeseen circumstances, which can damage day to day operations or worst case can completely destroy all the hard work and success and all the critical business information built up over the years.
Disaster recovery, fault tolerance, data recovery and high availability are a must have for any business in any financial climate. These 3 simple steps could make the difference between your business surviving the economic downturn or being crushed into non existence.
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| And with all these steps seeing a return on investment inside 12 months can you afford to take the risk? |
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